innovation all the developments from russia we. covered. the death toll from the algerian hostage crisis has reportedly risen to forty eight captives now said to being killed by terrorists claim the attack was in retaliation for french intervention in mali. hundreds of friends and supporters commemorate internet freedom activist and schwartz his family maintains the computer prodigy was driven to suicide by overzealous prosecutors in a possible thirty year jail sentence. to start agrees to dissolve on a deal to end an unprecedented anti-government sit in protest in the capital t. talk to them leading the demonstration.

center in moscow this is our weekly news review and the latest about some characterized. in the aftermath of the algerian gas facility hostage crisis the military has reportedly captured five islamic terrorists alive security officials now say up to forty eight hostages have been killed in the siege was behind the attack and it was triggered by the french intervention in mali however many analysts believe france is geo political ambitions are what pushed it to intervene as point reports. we don't always but it's terrorism was about to overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world. he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until

islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops and potatoes set to exceed two hundred thousand the stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francoise lands talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. many people say huge causes it's a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other neighboring parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by nuclear power power relies on a steady flow of pure rainy i'm so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the french government depends on

a steady flow of the precious natural resource but money says mr island is not about power or money. and security this is nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business. some have best especially nationally supported the courage energy company. is about to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali every year cars to exactly this year is going to be very cheap as a third world dirt cheap. predators play a very very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked a deadly hostage crisis in algeria light bulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens to pour out almost. i'm for intervention if it is to fight

terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons not of it's for raw materials that are in mali gas oil diamonds and gold it already renders the ground it is not. they don't think about well we have made paris a huge target and france are a target for terrorism. at least but with the prospect of untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts eliminated political analysts say that france will promise to stop playing big brother to former colonies isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon ali boy you can see paris. international relations professor mark almond says it's the fallout from the intervention in libya that originally led to the crisis in mali. it's extraordinary the complacency about this the british ministry of defense apparently shut down its north african desk in two

thousand and ten and then of course in two thousand and eleven britain and france lead the intervention in libya and we're getting kind of an element of this problem is a kind of backwash from that intervention because you have not really looked through what's going to happen if you overthrow gadhafi but you don't actually put anything stable in its place quite contrary spreads and similarly in mali the argument is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention actually tend to send recalls of disorder further around the region the surprising thing is that some fairly basic security measures which are just relieved numbers of guards would not apply to that bay of the same type of places here on all sides what seems to be really probably is there to be insofar as the mali events for the sparklers nobody seems to think that perhaps for you come from somewhere other than mali it seems

they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the plot of weapons that's been produced by the platters that are hutu but also the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially wards operating in different parts of libya. a barak obama has now officially started his second term out of the sun we get expert opinion and want to expect from the american president of the next. hundreds of people have gathered in new york to pay their respects to aaron swartz internet freedom activist who committed suicide last week twenty six year old computer prodigies death came before his trial for allegedly hacking into mit online publication archives well this week federal prosecutors dropped the charges against him but his family and friends say the legal pressures drove the activists to take his own life and society can reports. the crime downloading millions of

academic papers in the public domain from a paid subscription database and the belief that they should be free. to essentially rocking out too many books in the library the punishment facing thirty years behind bars and a million dollar fine you're looking at a crime that essentially amounts to download a p.d.f. to a hard drive. no person was harmed. there was no financial benefit murder received was punished the result twenty six year old web wizard aaron swartz takes his own life the idea that he was facing decades in jail is is just disgusting absolutely appalling and and now we've lost a tremendously valuable and talented human being while the plea bargain deal for only several months behind bars was reportedly a possible outcome the internet freedom crusader refused to be seen as a felon his family and supporters blame the prosecution's aggressive attempts to

put swartz behind bars for his suicide this man a young man and his family were literally terrorized by the prosecutors and the judicial discretion that let this case go forward and not stop while authorities dubbed him a criminal supporter say he was a robin hood in the fight for freedom of information aaron swartz was a prodigy at fourteen he helped write the are assessed specific ation an online syndication system that allows users to consolidate feeds from numerous blog sites automatically instead of having to check each website individually the program is now part of the common vocabulary of the internet and is used on a daily basis for publishing news stories from all over the world critics say u.s. officials wanted aaron sent down to set an example he was going up against policy and he knew it but but he thought he would be in the clear in the law because he was only spreading public domain documents instead swartz. this case has made an

example of how seriously the internet is regulated in the us the laws under which he was indicted did back to nine hundred eighty four many believe they're long outdated the prison sentences need to be relaxed especially for supposed crimes like this where there was no economic motive where there was no way for him to profit even if they said even if he did all the things that they said new legislation dubbed aarons law has been proposed in the u.s. congress it's still unclear whether there will be any real change but what is clear is that it once again took a tragedy to galvanize national debate and party new york focused on its government has struck a deal with character audrey to end a massive street protests in the country's capital young president and city involving tens of thousands targeted the current leadership for widespread corruption and economic mismanagement as part of the deal is that about it has agreed to dissolve parliament and showed you

a new elections where voting should take place within ninety days of parliament's term was a case due to expire in march the government also agreed to talks on electoral reforms but check to the clerics demand the army to help set up an interim administration with the son of a deepening playschool crisis came off the government's standoff to the supreme court the court's order to arrest the prime minister corruption allegations was dismissed well sultan and journalist and the former pakistan air force officer says a change of power could be looming. people likening it to square and so many other things but my personal feeling is that in all those uprisings there was not one single leader around home people could rally but over here they have in the shape of a llama cadre but there have been actually two or three different theories about the background of this man some say that because of his canadian nationality and because of his long stay in the west he may have been one motivated as well as

funded by the west there is another theory but he may be a stooge of the military the fact is that whoever has launched this particular person has done his homework because the man has captured the spirit and imagination of a people who had the feeling that they were down drugged and they were neglected and they were driven against of all because of bad governance because of the peril of situation because of lack of energy lack of food and lack of jobs people are joining in flocks and even those who are double minded are now trying to make sure that it matters if history has to change of this country. and his supporters driven by anger over corruption and the flawed election system of calls for their protests to grow into revolution in their city square protests in egypt in an exclusive interview the protest leader himself told us exactly what he means. to hear on r.t. later this hour. when i say revolution we should keep in your mind in egypt

in tunis in libya and all these countries there was needed a dictatorship for years and years for a long time. and the people stood up against that in iran there was a monarchy a rule of shan shah the people stood up against their. party stanek is bit different there is no one else who neither monadic nor military dictatorship here is electoral authority and twenty billion is an electoral dictatorship to democracy does not exist in this society neither in political field nor in social field nor in economic field not democracy so this is a law lessness total chaos and anarchy in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation single country in the whole muslim world and in nuclear capability and if the same situation continues that

would be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so our this martin movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world the whole third world and developing muslim countries the have to get rid of corruption and corrupt leaders. well israel is heading into the last day before it's spot to mention elections voting stations will open on tuesday as prime minister netanyahu struggles don't just against the opposition will say what a lot we have whereabouts off the break. is he.

welcome back you're watching r.t. if we can now barack obama is officially beginning his second that presidential term having now taken the oath of office at the white house where monday's expected to spurt out the prospects for next for his unpatched to deliver on some promises has so far failed to keep but james who was the former head of america's libertarian party believes hope for change is futile i'm not sure that we should get president obama credit or united states. i think we would have seen the united states coming out of our economic system where he should regard was what president obama. was ever stimulus and ate ice. in some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slow down the american with respect to the foreign policy there are are you hopeful signs all the nomination hate all of my

but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be wedded to a program of using drones. our has the various laws specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people sensibly around the world including the beer's americans i'm not sick or sanguine about the prospects or seeing us move or for the united states being a country which basically respects international we and also ties we respect the liberties of our own people. israel will elect a new parliament on tuesday and prime minister benjamin netanyahu predicted to come out on top here many israelis don't think his policies are radical enough with a one time netanyahu supporter reaping the rewards. reports on why the israeli there even has to fight against his former allies now. he's the surprise success

story of israel's election campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a left wing person driving the bus as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously a minute is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a white leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some

things we all know will never happen in the sopranos will never return for another season. and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been it's a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say netanyahu while still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric. in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right netanyahu says we could list has grown even more right when i was ready because like this woman high up in the pecking order. but then the league would be taken apart it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital. but what would be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many

israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to be bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self-will in the wrist and while that might not seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his

constituency wants to hear a fact in a time yahoo is acutely aware of policy r.t. television. and that will be keeping a close eye on events unfold with in-depth up to the minute coverage. how will change you with to run develop. expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america. who survive his snuff election on january twenty second. israel decides on our team. beijing has criticised washington for its latest comments on china's territorial problem japan and south china sea saying u.s. should be more careful with its words and stay away from the region's matters when it comes after statements made by u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton sure that tokyo american support warning china against any unilateral action in dispute with beijing on camera they claim to a string of uninhabited islands that are said to be rich in natural resources

george coup the founder of the national strategic alliance and believes the u.s. is stoking the conflict between the two asian powers. when the u.s. created this mess and i think the u.s. is continuing to prolong the problem between between japan and china u.s. is again playing the strategic ambiguity game by on the one hand saying we're neutral about this and we're not taking sides between china and japan and on the other hand they're saying we recognize that japan has a mystery of control and therefore we would be opposed to any. action but how did your pain get the control the u.s. . from the beginning of the year the u.s. was really responsible for this. mess. well it's always a more few on our website that sell to you dot com of beauty seek

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question for the violence this week so bloodbath for the two massive blast in the northern city of aleppo on tuesday when eighty people mostly students were killed more than one hundred injured after explosions devastated the city's regress to campus the war in the country has been dragging on for almost two years now but it's not just the government and rebels who cannot reconcile their differences according to political analysts here as the syrian opposition is incapable of forging a united front. if you're in a position dummies there are some elements that are in a brawl with. jaber ok and leave it on. me but on demographics he slams into the pre-election stream of repressed and then you have to be the strongest political. moves on their policies policies they do have a lot of the need for me to go for missions you also have come up time to. rebel

forces in syria like being free syrian army. and then you have to be a new structure on some other you have these and these let me. direct closer well kind. that would ensure the secular bylines or for their members of your politicians so we need sweeps be talking the political language it will be open to teach an old blanket that will be recounts miles of d.c. the only thing that having come now is and they want to remove the government in damascus. now for more news making headlines around the world this hour. courthouse has been set on an egyptian city of alexandria following day long clashes between riot police and protesters there is traitors were demanding justice in the trial of former security officers accused of killing history meet twenty seven uprising violence first erupted when the presiding judge abruptly resigned without carrying out his duties. afghan security forces have been torturing nearly

a third of all detainees transferred to the control by u.s. forces according to the red report claims kabul is operating secret sites with abuse of prisoners to avoid international scrutiny with the nato withdrawal the allegations could hinder plans for the full hundred over security responsibilities to africa twenty fourteen. extremely low temperatures and heavy snow has continued to blanket europe with weather related deaths now confirmed in spain france and portugal snow and ice cores fatalities on roads france was worst hit with six dead thousands have been left stranded as well after flights were canceled across the continent forecasters say more harsh conditions on the way. catching a train took a bizarre twist in route russia this week after

a man survived falling out of a moving carriage barely dressed for conditions in the freezing siberian forest where earlier artist tom barton told us how the man that rushed to make it out of the woods alive. if we picture the scene we've got forty two year old valarie mal cough a lorry driver in this train clickety clack ing its way through the forests in the a more region in russia's far east at night they decide to go for a cigarette but nothing special so he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarette and then as he stays went to open the door to go back to his carriage except it was the wrong door and he falls out the back of the train so he rapidly realizes that he is not just running to catch up with the train but for his very life we managed to talk to him earlier he was a little bit embarrassed about the whole thing when i fell out i only had parents slippers and t. shirt i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse minitab and i just saw the train

was gone so i came quickly to my senses and started running so that i didn't freeze i ran on the railway track for about twenty or thirty minutes when i go to the nearest station their eyes popped out after they saw a man with almost no clothes on women there quickly gave me tea and reported what just happened i didn't tell this to anybody my wife found out about the incident only after journalists called her i would imagine that the phone call he had with his wife after she had found help not from him but from journalists was possibly a little bit strained luckily he's ok no injuries no hypothermia he's back at work there will be an investigation into perhaps the whether the train guard had forgotten to lock the back door of the train which as we can see was probably quite a big oversight if it turns out that that was what happened it's also possibly one factor that made him run a bit faster was that we've recently reported on in the far east in siberia there's been quite a lot of problems with packs of ravenous wolves being there so i imagine hey if we

had that in mind if you knew about that possibly something to spur him on a bit faster. next the third installment of our report on the bloody rivalry between america's two most notorious criminal gangs to the. georgian president mikheil saakashvili military police have been accused by prosecutors of using a very unusual weapon to control members of the government and weapons so unusual that history great villains would even touch it that weapon was almost sexuality the georgian prosecutor's office claims a network of gay spies was set up to seduce certain politicians in order to surveil

them and blackmail them the gay spies would tempt men in the government into going back to their apartments which were filled with hidden cameras and microphones to record information and create a not safe for work video to be used to put pressure on these officials this is truly one of the most unique and kind of gross weapons of political intrigue i've ever heard of i mean how many men in georgia politics could possibly fall into the spy trap you know if he actually did implement this scheme and it actually worked than machiavelli and von bismarck could have a thing or two to learn from president saakashvili but that's just my opinion. when you hear america san there's going to be a walk on crying to a black person i mean that's a walk on back and. they see a world again.